Free Blown for Good Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology by Marc Headley Page A

of risking that I would not complete by Thursday at 2:00  p.m. , they told me to keep studying and get done today. Once I was done with the courses I would no longer be doing manual labor anyway.
    Most of the other people were very surprised to see someone finish so quickly. A few other EPFers had been there for weeks or even months. I had, to my credit, already done a bulk of the required courses before I got there, so that certainly did not hurt. Lucky for me, the few courses I had already done in Scientology were on the list for the EPF.
    I was supposed to get a Fitness Board in order to start working at the Association for Better Living and Education International. A group of people would review my test scores, my study record and my performance while on the Estates Project Force and decide if I was fit to join the Sea Org. Veronika Kegel at ABLE International came and met me at the Complex. She was there to pick me up and get me over to ABLE Int. I was done with the Estates Project Force and getting out of there!

Chapter Four – The Landscape is Changing
    I arrived at the Association for Better Living and Education. The first thing that Veronika told me was that I would start by answering the phones. I was confused. I asked her where I was being posted. She said that once my Fitness Board was approved and I was found fit for the Sea Org, my post would be assigned. But for now, I would sit at reception, answer the phones when they rang and direct incoming calls accordingly.
    Before I began, I needed to go down the street and get a tie, some nice slacks and a dress shirt. Unlike the rest of the Sea Org staff, ABLE Int staff wore Uniform “K” – or “civvies” as they called them – civilian clothes.
    She showed me how to use the phone system and gave me a short list of 15 staff that worked at ABLE Int.
    Most of the calls were for the Registrars, Dick Story and Tom Woodruff. People were constantly coming and going for these two guys. They were either talking to someone on the phone or someone was sitting in front of them at their desks. They were asking people to donate money for Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics or the Way to Happiness. Veronika explained to me that they needed to make at least $300,000 per week to meet their quota.
    Everyone else seemed to sit at their computers all day and type and that was it. The Executive Director of ABLE was a white South African lady who claimed to have been in the Sea Org since she was 16 years old. She must have been in her late 30s so she had been in awhile. Her name was Rena Weinberg. She had just been brought over from South Africa where she had been the head of an Applied Scholastics group over there. Her husband was over The Way to Happiness fundraising area.
    Veronika kept checking in on me and giving me extra things to do. It did not take me long to figure out that everything I was now doing were functions she had done herself before I had shown up. I was answering the phones, writing letters, filing, taking out the trash, cleaning the reception, you name it, it was my job and it all had to be done each day.
    Veronika also let me in on the fact that at ABLE they never used full words, EVERYTHING was abbreviated:
    Applied Scholastics = APS
    The Way to Happiness = TWTH
    Narconon was said “Narconon” but spelled “NN”
    Criminon was said “Criminon” but spelled “CN”
    Social Betterment Corporations = SBCs
    Hollywood Guaranty Building = HGB
    Western United States = WUS
    Promotional materials = promo
    Eastern United States = EUS
    Trained and Processed (lists of all types of Scientologists) = T&P
    Statistics = Stats
    Gross Income = GI
    Letters Out = LO
    Letters In = LI
    Bulk Mail = BMO
    Veronika was the Supercargo or S/C
    The Executive Director was the ED
    Flag Banking Officer = FBO
    The Treasury Secretary was the Treas Sec
    The Dissemination Secretary was the Dissem Sec
    Cycle of Action or Start - Change – Stop = “a cycle”
    The list went on